Frozen Artemia

Artemia (500gm) is common practice to use. Shrimp larvae prefer live feed when they are young because it is easier for their undeveloped stomachs to digest and contains a lot of nutrients.

Artemia is simple to use, it has a long shelf life, thus making it easy for shrimp farmers to hatch them whenever they need to. In the nursery and hatchery stages, nauplii are the most frequently used live feeds for Artemia.

In the aquarist community, brine shrimp are a popular food choice due to their high protein content.

Benefits

1. Gives your pet fish nutrition and health benefits.

2. Helps the post-larvae (PL) acclimatize.

3. Spastic swimming motions, they stimulate your fish’s hunting instincts. This is beneficial for your fish’s enrichment and entertaining to observe! Similar small creatures are the natural prey of many aquarium fish species.

4. Brine shrimp are delicious and gentle on fish’s digestive systems.

5.They are suitable for use as food in both freshwater and marine tanks due to their tolerance for salinity.

6. Brine shrimp are an excellent food source for fish fry that are too small to eat anything else.

The fish that are most likely to feed on Artemia

Numerous fish, including Bettas, neon tetras, cory catfish, and the kuhli loach, can be fed brine shrimp. To be honest, finding fish that are unable to consume brine shrimp is more difficult than finding fish that can.

How to feed your pet?

100 nauplii per shrimp per day, divided into two to three feeding sessions, is the recommended feeding rate.

180,000 nauplii can be found in one gram of Artemia cysts. The number of PL determines how many Artemia cysts a pond needs.

Caution

Do not overfeed your fish.